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Ep 104: Sleeping Beauties: The mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (with Andreas Wagner)

Big BiologyJune 15, 2023metabolism, metaphors, genes, talk, enzymes, organism, grasses, latent potential, lineages, evolve, promiscuity, latent, produce, genomes, ability, idea, traits, evolution, book, studied

Ep 103: Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (with Bethany Brookshire)

Big BiologyJune 1, 2023pests, rats, animals, elephants, mice, cats, pigeons, species, writing, kevin, new zealand, sparrows, book, bethany, birds, love, bees, maori, big, humans

Ep 92: A journey into the brilliant abyss (with Helen Scales)

Big BiologyNovember 17, 2022deep ocean, deep, people, ocean, species, deep sea, fish, happening, bit, ecosystems, seabed, hydrothermal vents, book, snail, metals, talking, yeti, carbon, crabs, depth

Ep 88: How I learned to stop worrying and follow the data (with Timothy Caulfield)

Big BiologySeptember 22, 2022misinformation, people, science, studies, coffee, topic, book, pandemic, scientific uncertainty, absolutely, microbiome, bad, big, impact, starting, masks, talk, question, happen, important

Ep 79: How the genetic lottery affects complex human traits (with Kathryn Paige Harden)

Big BiologyMarch 3, 2022people, genes, genetics, phenotype, populations, book, polygenic, snps, plasticity, outcomes, study, human, thinking, terms, human behavior, psychologists, question, biology, norm, evolutionary biologists